Road-vehicle.



No. 739,280. 'PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

' A. BBURRIER.

ROAD VEHICLE.

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, UNITED STATES Patented September `22, 1203.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXIS BEURRIER, OF MONTGUYON, FRANCE.

SPECIFIUATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,280, dated ySeptember 22, 1903.

Application filed February 4, 1902. Serial No. 92,561. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ALExIs BEURRIER, of

. Montguyon, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Road-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention for improvements in roadvehicles has for its object to provide a twowheeled vehicle forv horse traction in which the center of gravity of the vehicle-body is well below lthe axle, so thatit cannot be overturned, and also to provide means whereby the pull is exerted directly on the axle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2a plan, of a road-vehicle constructed according to this invention. Fig. 3 is a plan of the shafts, showing another way of securing t-hem to the axle.

- According to this invention the ,vehicle comprises two wheels R of large diameter and a body which is very low down, just clear of the ground, so as to passover kobstacles that may be Inet with on the road, and suspended from the axle O by bowfsprings or spiral springs, so that it hangs below the axle after the manner of a swing. Thetraction is direct from the axle and not from the body,

a carriage-pole running from the center of the axle and being used for puttinga couple of horses to. Shafts for a single horse may be connected with the axle,the said shafts being fastened to the horses collar by means of a hook with a spring attachment for deadening the action of the collar in the direction of traction.

These carriages may be made with either one or more seats. lIn those with one or two seats onlyvthe seat is placed low down and behind the axle. The persons using the Vehicle get in from behind. In this case the two shafts may be fixed near the end of thel axle.

Theforin and design of the vehicle-.body may be varied to any extent.

With a carriage of the above-d escribed form of construction accidents from falls and overturning are avoided, greater facilities aord-V backstrap,'or belly-band.l Thus the horses body is free and there is no upward tugging, even in hill y country.

1. In a two-wheeled road-vehicle the combination with the wheels and axle of springs supported from the axle, a body arranged below the axle and suspended from the springs, and shafts connected directly to the axle, substantially as described.

2. In a two-wheeled road-vehicle the coinbination with the wheels and'axle of springs ALEXIS BEURRIER.

Witnesses:

LoUIs Floor, EUGENE CAMPBELL. 

